STGT:CLO09: Wreck of St. Peter Traditional Cache
MacCrew: This seems to be missing again. Given that the Seaway Geotrail program has been discontinued, I am going to just archive this. I'll get up there to pick up the remnants... :(
STGT:CLO09: Wreck of St. Peter
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UPDATE 9/29/14: A friend offered to check on this for me and it was indeed missing, so has been replaced with a lock & lock. At the moment, there is not a hole punch in the cache for the passbooks but the cache is available to be found. The cache location is vulnerable to exposure, so PLEASE make sure to cover it back up after signing. There is no need to go down the hill.
Nice walk in a beautiful county park on the shores of Lake Ontario. Please note, there may be "Closed" signs for the fall/winter season, but that only refers to the facilities, not the park itself.
This cache is placed as part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail, located within the Central Lake Ontario Region. There are 15 caches hidden within this region, and geocachers finding ten or more Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail caches within this region can earn a free Central Lake Ontario Region geocoin.
If you are interested in participating in the Geotrail, please visit www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail for a list of locations where you can pick up a free copy of the official Great LakesSeaway Trail Geotrail Logbook.
This cache contains a unique hole punch which must stay with the cache. Use this hole punch in space #9 on Central Lake Ontario Region page of your Official Great Lakes Seaway Trail Logbook. This hole punch is NOT a trade item.
The cache has been replaced with a small lock & lock located in a scenic park in Pultneyville, a small hamlet in the town of Williamson with quite an interesting history. Pultneyville is located on the Seaway Trail about 20 miles east of Rochester and was the location of a War of 1812 skirmish, was a stop on the Underground Railroad, was once an important maritime port and is home to the 2nd oldest little theatre in the United States.
A piece of history lies about 2.6 miles northeast of Pultneyville at the bottom of Lake Ontario. In October of 1898, the 3-masted schooner by the name of the St. Peter set out from Oswego headed for Toledo, Ohio with a load of coal. The schooner was approaching Welland Canal when it was hit with 70 mph winds from an early season blizzard. The captain ordered the crew to turn back in an attempt to outrun the storm and for the next 12 hours, they fought 20 foot seas, gale force winds and freezing sleet, but the St. Peter went down with the crew and the captain’s wife all perishing. In 1971, the St. Peter was discovered resting upright and intact at the bottom of the lake and the wreck is now a site for advanced open water divers to explore. There is a Seaway Trail sign located in the park with more information about the St. Peter and her demise.
For more information about Pultneyville’s history or the St. Peter, visit the Historical Society website at www.pultneyvillehistoricalsociety.org.
While in the area, be sure to check out the Pultneyville Historical District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and home to the Captain’s Monument, dedicated to the lake captains and to the Battle of Pultneyville.
There are two other caches located in this park: "barkers cache" (GC27CBH) and “Liberty Tree Cache” (GC14YZF).
There is a set of unactivated Travel Bug tags and a lammy for FTF and a few Seaway Trail buttons.
Please make sure to leave the punch in the cache for other Seaway Trail cachers to punch their logbooks.
Congratulations to Nebula5 for being FTF!
Additional Hints
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